Ludwig Hilberseimer

Ludwig Hilberseimer, (born Sept. 14, 1885, Karlsruhe, Ger.—died May 6, 1967, Chicago), German-born U.S. city planner who founded in 1928 the Department of City Planning at the Bauhaus, Dessau.

An original and logical thinker, his first project for a new city was essentially two cities on top of one another, dwelling houses for workers being built above the offices and workshops. Later he developed a linear form of city with housing and industrial units related horizontally.